Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Mrs Snively & buckboard, boys & Laddie |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
August 28, 1890 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Eliza M. Snively and her sons Alexander and Schuyler are seated in a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage (a buckboard) on a lawn in Bennington, Vermont. A house with leafy vines and trees is in the background, and a dog, identified in the inscription as Laddie, is laying on the lawn at left. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower right corner of the negative: "E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "444 / Seed / 26 / Mrs Snively & buckboard, boys & Laddie / 4 P.M / Stop 22 / P. / cap off & on / Thursday Aug 28th 1890 / Bennington Vt." |
Film Size |
6.5x8.5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Eliza M. Snively and her husband, Rev. Thaddeus A. Snively, were the subject of several newspaper articles in the early 1890s. They separated in June 1891, and in October 1892 she filed for divorce "on the ground of intolerable severity" and requested permanent custody of their two sons. One of the articles noted "Mr. and Mrs. Snively have had their summer residence at Bennington for a number of years, and she is now living at that place." |
Earliest Date |
1890 |
Latest Date |
1890 |
Subjects |
Horses Carriages & coaches Children |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Snively, Eliza M. |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6673 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, December 2018. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |